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Friday, November 15, 2013

Baltimore, MD - A renown Orthodox Jewish high school
mathematics teacher from Baltimore has filed suit against the Baltimore County
Board of Education claiming that anti-Semitic behavior by his evaluators forced
him to retire early.

Baltimore Jewish Times reports that 66 year-old Dr. Bert
Miller, an acclaimed teacher with over 4 decades of service, says he retired
“under protest” over his impending termination, but that recent revelations
that have a surfaced through depositions expose a pattern of anti-Semitic
behavior by administrators, including one immediate supervisor who routinely
referred to him as a “dirty, smelly, Jew.”

“It was a conspiracy, there’s no question,” Miller said,
about the systematic conduct that drove him out.

Miller’s suit also states egregious conduct by the same
administrator in his attempt oust him, including penalizing him for being
absent on major Jewish holidays, bribing school athletes in order to get their
parents to file complaints against him, and leaving a lemon with pins stuck in
it on his keyboard-a bad luck curse often linked to witchcraft.

Miller also claims that the school violated state procedural
laws by not granting him his third-level appeal after his termination.

Kevin Joyce, Miller’s attorney, said he agreed with Miller’s
claim that anti-Semitism has played a major role in his dismissal.

“From Dr. Miller’s perspective, it’s appalling and I’m
inclined to agree with him. ‘Dirty, smelly Jew’-there’s no other way to
interpret that,” said Joyce. We’re confident that if an appeal does take place,
[anti-Semitism] will be part of an appeal, and I’m confident we’ll win.”